Yearly Archives: 2008

Blood and Treasure

3/27/2008 – 8:49 am

Less than a week later, Adrienne and I headed back out for the vigil. The half-dozen senior citizens and nuns who have been there every day for nearly seven years were happy to have us back, even if it meant one of our infrequent thresholds – in this case, the 4,000th American death in Iraq […]

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Waiting for Godot

3/20/2008 – 9:53 am

Because there’s an energy crisis, we have gone to daylight savings earlier in the year. Because we’ve gone to daylight savings earlier in the year, it was still light when Adrienne and I arrived at the sidewalk in front of the Unitarian Church just before 5 p.m. for the vigil. How many times have we […]

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The Toilet Brush

3/13/2008 – 11:13 am

To Eliot Spitzer, the soon to be ex-governor of New York, I offer this thought: Consider the toilet brush. Mr. Spitzer, a millionaire and a millionaire’s son, may be unfamiliar with this useful tool. Contemporary toilet brushes are usually made of plastic, but I’m sure some high-end and eco-friendly hardware stores carry models with wooden […]

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Sorry, Walter

3/12/2008 – 8:18 pm

I guess I owe a 24 years-belated apology to Walter Mondale. As it transpires, it wasn’t all his fault he got blown out by Ronald Reagan in 1984. Part of the problem was his boneheaded, run off at the mouth vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro. It only took 48 hours and multiple, abrasive appearances on […]

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Don’t Do the Crime….

3/11/2008 – 2:07 pm

Never mind about doing the time, just don’t do the crime. Eliot Spitzer was my kind of politician (past tense intentional). He went after corporate criminals, the criminal class everyone else ignores, he vowed to clean up corrupt government. I would have voted for him for president. That was then. Now his career is over, […]

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Bye, American

3/6/2008 – 10:33 am

You might have heard the story about General Motors Vice Chairman Bob Lutz. At a recent closed-door meeting with reporters, the 76-year-old, who’s in charge of product development said he thinks global warming theory is “a total crock of shit” and that hybrid cars “make no economic sense.” As you might expect, the people who […]

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What Might Have Been

2/28/2008 – 8:55 am

Years ago, when the Earth was young, a talk show host in Ohio named Phil Donahue managed to get famous consumer advocate Ralph Nader to appear on his show. Mr. Nader liked the young man’s style of interview and audience participation and told Mr. Donahue he would return to the show if invited. Over the […]

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